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Affiliate ane. Meet the iPod: Out of the Box and into Your Ears in 15 Minutes

If you're like most people, yous desire to leap right in and get your spiffy new iPod upwards and running. You probably don't desire to wade through any quick-start instructions longer than a couple of paragraphs, and yous'd like enough of colour pictures, too.

Sure, Apple thoughtfully includes a trivial pamphlet of starter info with every iPod information technology sells. It's nicely designed equally far every bit pamphlets go. But you may find that it doesn't get far enough. You want more assistance than a few line drawings and some haiku-like instructions can provide.

This book—and especially this affiliate—is designed for you.

You won't get bogged downward in a bland gray ocean of impress here. You'll larn a chip most your particular iPod model and how to get it whistling sugariness tunes in your ear in no fourth dimension. If you want more than information on in-depth iPodding or getting the most out of iTunes, you tin can find that stuff in chapters farther down the route.

But for at present, let's get rolling with your new iPod. Prepare?

Run into the iPod Nano

The iPod Nano may exist Apple's mid-sized music player, simply it'southward besides one of its well-nigh versatile models. Sure, it tin play songs, podcasts, and sound books similar all the other iPods. And like the iPod Touch and iPod Classic, it tin can display photos, text notes, contacts, and calendars on its bright color screen. Merely different those 'Pods, which can merely play video, the Nano can also shoot video. It's one of the smallest camcorders always.

If that'south not enough, there's more: The 2009 Nano is the beginning iPod to include a congenital-in FM radio. That's right—yous don't need a third-party attachment or any extra add-ons to pull live broadcasts out of the air and into your earphones. And unlike standard receivers, the Nano's radio tin even pause live shows for a few minutes should someone offset talking at you in the middle of a song.

You navigate through all these goodies using the Nano's polish, touch-sensitive click wheel. With its 2.2-inch color screen and sharp 320×376 pixel resolution, the Nano can also play movies, Television receiver shows, and video podcasts just similar the bigger iPods, and it comes with its ain selection of video games. But the Nano'due south perfect for gym workouts or that mad dash for the last train because information technology uses a flash retention chip to shop everything. That means information technology'southward much more tolerant of jumping around than the traditional Classic iPod, with its large ol' hard drive tucked inside.

The Nano comes in two sizes: 8-gigabyte and xvi GB, all wrapped in scratch-resistant anodized aluminum. And yous're not stuck deciding betwixt two colors when you buy a Nano, either—you get a rainbow of nine choices: silvery, black, purple, blue, light-green, yellow, orange, red, and pink. Oh, and if you similar your music flowing all day long, you lot'll exist glad to know the Nano's battery lasts up to 24 hours—you'll probably conk out earlier it does.

The Nano has a few other tricks under its aluminum hood. For one thing, it's got a built-in pedometer to measure your steps. It even reports how many calories you burn on your walk.

There's also an accelerometer (tilt sensor), which means the Nano senses movement and knows which way you're holding it. Plow it sideways to watch a movie, and the movie instantly spins around to orient itself for the wider view.

The accelerometer is shaking things up in another way, too—literally. Not in the mood for that song that just came on? Give your Nano a shake to have it shuffle up a new tune. And certain video games were made with the Nano in listen, making you lot tilt and motility your way through a pixelated mural in search of that next level.

The Nano is also one of the virtually accessible iPods ever for visually impaired listeners. An optional Spoken Menus characteristic recites the names of songs, albums, artists, and menus out loud, letting you navigate through this iPod's content with exact cues. And for those of you tired of squinting, you can brand the on-screen font size larger if you like.

At about a quarter of an inch thick and tipping the scales at a mere 1.3 ounces, who'd accept thought it'd be this piece of cake to fit a combination video camera/radio receiver/jukebox/movie house/fitness trainer/handheld gaming console in your pocket?

Run across the iPod Touch

If an iPod Nano and Apple tree's iPhone always had a child, it would surely look something like the youngest iPod family unit member, the iPod Touch on. The Touch gets its moniker from its responsive touch screen , the smooth front end-side surface that lets y'all navigate through your music, videos, and photos with a tap or elevate of your finger.

While it may have inherited its sensitivity from the iPhone, the Bear upon gets its stability from the same wink retentiveness that's inside the Nano. No matter how difficult you run or stone out, you'll probably never hear your music skip. You become almost 30 hours of sound playback on a battery charge, or 6 hours of video.

Speaking of video, the iPod Touch sports the iPhone'due south middle-communicable 3.five-inch widescreen display and 480×320 pixel resolution. Flip it sideways to meet why information technology makes movies and Tv shows look then practiced.

Apple gives you iii Touches to choose from: an 8-gigabyte model, a 32-gigabyte version, or one that tin can store 64 gigs of your favorite stuff. That's one,750 songs or ten hours of iPod-friendly video on the 8 GB Touch on; vii,000 songs or 40 hours of video on the 32 GB model; and a relatively whopping 14,000 songs and 80 hours of video on the big 64-gigabyte model.

Only the Touch is much more than just a pretty face. In improver to all its regular iPod capabilities, like listening to music or showing off your latest photos, this iPod tin can reach right out and touch the Internet. Thanks to a built-in Wi-Fi bit and a small-merely-powerful version of Apple tree'due south Safari Spider web browser, yous cancatch upwards on all the latest news whenever yous're in range of a Wi-Fi network. You lot use your fingertips to signal your fashion around the Web—or fire up the Bear on'south onscreen keyboard when you take to enter text for a Web accost or on a page.

And where there's Internet, there's email, stock-market updates, weather condition forecasts, and online maps. If that's not plenty, there'south a whole new world of possibilities in the iTunes App Store, where you lot can customize your iPod with boosted software. Whether you're continued or non, you likewise get a handy notepad, your personal calendar, and your calculator'southward address book, too.

If yous hate leaving your figurer for fearfulness of missing something totally cool posted on YouTube, the pop video-sharing site, the Touch is there for you. This wireless iPod comes with its own ane-click link to YouTube and then you can keep up with the Web's funniest videos.

Oh, and one more than thing…take you ever been listening to your iPod and wished you could buy even more music right there, no matter where you are? With the Touch (and a wireless network connection), you can. This fiddling Internet iPod tin step correct up to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store (Chapter 7) and search, sample, and snap upwardly tracks over the airwaves.

Note

They may wait an awful lot alike, but the iPod Touch and the iPhone accept some distinct differences. For one thing, the iPod Impact is not a mobile phone. While this means Touch on owners get to skip the AT&T Experience, information technology as well means there's no ubiquitous cellphone network to employ for online fun when your pool of Wi-Fi hotspots runs common cold. There'due south too no integrated 2-megapixel camera. On the plus side, without the actress hardware inside, the Touch is much more svelte.

Encounter the iPod Archetype

With its solid, rectangular shape and horizontal screen, the true-blue iPod Classic still looks the nigh similar the original indigestible white-and-chrome iPod that arrived on the scene in 2001. Less than a decade later, Apple has transformed that humble little 5-gigabyte music player with a black-and-white screen into a total-color, gorgeous portable media system that can play movies, Tv shows, and video games—all while notwithstanding fitting comfortably in the palm of your mitt. And it's come a long manner from those starting time 5 gigabytes: now you tin stuff 160 gigabytes of music, photos, videos, and more than onto it.

In those 160 gigabytes, you can fit 40,000 songs or 200 hours of video. And you don't take to stock upward on the Duracells, either, because the iPod has a rechargeable battery that tin can play audio for 36 hours or video for six hours.

The iPod Classic comes in either silver or black. Unlike earlier iPods that sported hard sleeky plastic on the front, Apple's latest version comes outfitted in a total metal jacket—anodized aluminum on the front and shiny stainless steel on the back.

Along with the click wheel—retrieve of it as the iPod's mouse—the 2.five-inch color screen is the thespian's other chief component. Capable of displaying more than than 65,000 colors at a resolution of 320×240 pixels (translation: high-quality), the Classic's a great place to shop and evidence off your latest holiday photos. In fact, you can have upward to 25,000 pictures on your 'Pod. The screen also makes it a delight to take hold of up on that episode of The Daily Bear witness you missed, or play a few rounds of solitaire while you heed to your favorite music or podcast.

The Classic comes with everything yous need to hook information technology up to your Windows PC or Macintosh: a USB 2.0 cable. You also get those iconic see-what-I've-got white earphones. Once you get up and iPodding, y'all'll find that everyone and their grandmother wants to sell yous other iPod accessories—all you have to practice is stroll down to your favorite figurer store and browse the ever-increasing selection of cases, cables, battery chargers, and more than.

Meet the iPod Shuffle

The smallest member of Squad iPod doesn't take a screen—but information technology doesn't need one, because it'southward designed for fuss-free music on the go. You don't take to worry about losing your Shuffle, because it clips right to your lapel or pocket—it's like jewelry you lot can rock out with. Take your pick of five standard Shuffle colors: blue, black, green, pink, and silver. You can get it with a ii-gigabyte retention chip (virtually 500 songs) or become for the 4-gigabyte model (i,000 songs); a special-edition 4-gigabyte version in shiny steel is likewise available. And fifty-fifty though information technology'southward called the iPod Shuffle, you don't have to shuffle your music; you can play your tracks in order with the nudge of a button (see below).

This petite 'Pod is and then tiny, information technology doesn't even have room for a USB jack or navigation and volume controls—you control everything through the headphone jack. You lot plug a USB adapter into it to load music from iTunes and to accuse the player, while a remote control built into the headphone cord handles book control and music navigation chores.

The Shuffle, which offers near 10 hours of playing fourth dimension, may not have a screen, but it includes Apple tree's VoiceOver technology, which audibly announces the name and artist of the song currently playing.

1. Those trademark white Apple headphones plug into the headphone jack on the top of the Shuffle, but look closely—in that location'south also a remote control right there on the cord.

   

2. The + and – buttons on the remote heighten and lower song volume. Click the gray heart button to play and pause music. Click and hold the center button to hear artist and playlist names (see Chapter 6 for the scoop on playlists). Double-click the center push to skip to the side by side track or triple-click it to rewind.

3. A little silver switch on peak of the Shuffle turns information technology off and on, and flips betwixt playing tunes in guild ( ) and shuffling them ( ).

   

Install iTunes

Before you can have hours of iPod fun, you demand to install Apple's iTunes multi-media, multifunction jukebox program on your computer. With iTunes, you also get Apple's QuickTime software—a video helper for iTunes. iPods once came with a CD packing all these programs, simply these days you take to download everything yourself:

1. Fire upward your computer's Web browser and point it to www.itunes.com/downloads.

2. Click the "Download Now" push button . (Turn off the "Email me…" and "Keep me up to date…" checkboxes to spare yourself hereafter marketing missives.) Look for the file to download to your computer.

3. When the file lands on your hard drive, double-click the iTunesSetup.exe file . If you use a Mac, double-click the iTunes.dmg file and then open the iTunes.mpkg file to starting time the installation. But if your Mac'due south younger than six years old, you lot probably already accept iTunes installed. Go to Menu→Software Update and ask your Mac to run across if in that location's a newer version of iTunes, just in example.

   

4. Follow the screens until the software installer says it'southward washed .

You may need to restart your estimator after you install the software. Once that'south done, yous're prepare to connect your new iPod to the computer.

Notation

The hardware and operating-organisation requirements needed to run iTunes are listed beneath the Download Now button. If you accept an older figurer, it's worth a glance merely to brand sure your rig can handle the program. Equally for newer systems, iTunes runs fine on early on versions of Microsoft'southward Windows 7.

Unpack iPod and Prepare It Up

If you haven't torn open up the plastic box already, liberate your iPod from its box. The items you'll discover inside vary depending on which iPod you purchased, but all of them come with:

1. Apple's archetype white headphones.

   

2. A USB cablevision to connect the iPod to your computer. The iPod Nano, Touch, and Classic employ the same white USB cable with the flat dock-connector port, while the iPod Shuffle has its own little USB adapter.

   

3. A little pamphlet of bones quick-starting time data that'due south not nearly equally fun or as colorful as this book.

What you want right now is the USB cable. Connect the minor, narrow end to your reckoner's USB port and the wide, flat cease (or the adapter, if y'all accept a Shuffle) to the iPod. The starting time fourth dimension you connect your iPod to a computer, iTunes' Setup Assistant walks yous through a few steps to get your iPod ready to go.

The next step, if you lot want to hear some music, is to get some music.

Three Ways to Get Music for iTunes (and iPod)

Once you accept iTunes running on your computer, you lot can start filling information technology with music. Capacity Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 accept info on digital audio formats and technical settings you lot can tweak, simply if y'all've got a brand-new iPod, odds are you don't care well-nigh that right now. No, you'd probably just like to load some music on your 'Pod. Here are three simple ways:

Import Existing Songs into iTunes

If you've had a reckoner for longer than a few years, odds are you already have some songs in the popular MP3 format on your hard drive. When yous beginning iTunes for the first time, the program asks if you lot'd like to search your PC or Mac for music and add it to iTunes. Click "Aye" and iTunes will go fetch.

Notation

Now, many Windows fans, if they exercise have existing music, may have songs in the Windows Media Sound (WMA) format. The bad news here is that iTunes tin can't play WMA files. The good news is that when iTunes finds WMA files, it can automatically catechumen them to an iPod-friendly format. Just be sure to plow on the last checkbox in the box in a higher place during iTunes setup. If you miss this footstep, you tin always add together WMA tracks by choosing File→Add to Library and selecting the songs you want; iTunes then converts them. One last thing to recollect: the program can't convert copy-protected tracks you downloaded from other online music stores.

Import a CD

Yous can likewise use iTunes to convert tracks from your audio CDs into iPod-set digital music files. Merely stick a CD in your computer's disc drive after you start upward iTunes. The plan asks if you want to import the CD into iTunes. (If it doesn't ask, click the "Import CD" button at the bottom-right of the iTunes window.) If you're continued to the Net, iTunes automatically downloads song titles and artist information for the CD (yes, strange as information technology may seem, music managers like iTunes don't get information about an anthology from the album itself, they search for information technology in a huge database on the Spider web).

Once you tell it to import music, iTunes gets to work and begins calculation the songs to your library. You tin can import all the tracks from a CD, but if y'all don't want every song, plow off the checkbox next to the titles you want iTunes to skip. Affiliate 4 has more about using iTunes to convert CDs.

Buy Music in the iTunes Store

Another way to get music for your iTunes library and iPod is to buy information technology from the iTunes Store. Click the iTunes Shop icon in the listing on the left side of iTunes. One time you land on the Store's main folio and fix your iTunes account, you can purchase and download songs, audio books, and videos. The content goes straight into your iTunes library so onto your iPod. Chapter vii is all about using the iTunes Store.

Get Stuff Onto the iPod Nano or Archetype: The Quick Mode

You don't have to do much to continue your iPod'southward music and video collection upwards to date with what'due south on your computer. That's because iTunes has a bully autosync feature, which automatically makes sure that whatever's in your iTunes library also appears on your iPod in one case you connect information technology to the computer.

The first fourth dimension you plug in your new iPod (after y'all install iTunes, of course), the iPod Setup Banana leaps into activeness, asking you to proper name your iPod, and if you'd like to "Automatically sync songs to my iPod". If your answer'south "yes," just click the End push button. iTunes loads a re-create of everything in its library that fits onto your iPod. That's it. Your iPod'south set to go.

You lot tin can copy photos from your computer and turn on the talking VoiceOver menus hither, besides. But if you lot just desire to stick with the music for now, Chapter 9 can fill yous in on the photo business. If you more often than not like autosync but desire more control over what goes onto your iPod, read on to observe out how to make that happen.

Notation

If y'all have a pocket-size-capacity iPod, you lot may already accept more than music than can fit on the player. If that'due south the instance, your automatic option is the Autofill button at the bottom of the iTunes window. Skip alee to Make full Upwardly Whatever iPod Quickly to acquire more about Autofill, which lets iTunes decide what to put on your iPod. And if y'all want to selectively sync certain playlists or artists, bank check out Arrange Your iPod'south Syncing Preferences with iTunes for the details.

Manually Load the iPod Nano or Classic

If yous don't have enough room on your Nano or Classic for your whole iTunes collection, or if yous plan to load music onto your iPod from more than than ane computer (say your work and home PCs), y'all'll want to manually manage your songs and other stuff. To put your iPod on transmission right from the go-go, turn off the checkbox on the iPod Setup Assistant screen next to "Automatically sync songs…" (If y'all've already washed the Setup affair, see Load Songs Onto an iPod from More than One Calculator for how to come back to Manual Land.) iTunes now refrains from automatically dumping everything onto your iPod. "But," you ask, " how do I become the music on there by myself?" Information technology's like shooting fish in a barrel. Y'all just drag it:

1. In iTunes, click the Music icon under "Library" . Click the push button circled below to see a list of all the songs in your music library. You tin can besides click Ctrl+B (⌘-B) to get into Column Browser view, where iTunes lists your music past genre, artist, and album.

2. Click the songs or albums you desire to copy to your iPod . Grab multiple song titles or albums by property down the Control or ⌘ key.

3. Drag your selection onto the iPod icon . The number of songs you're dragging appears inside a scarlet circle.

You can manually place any items in your iTunes library—audio books, movies, whatever—onto your iPod this way.

Fill up Up Any iPod Speedily

Most people'south entire music library is too big to stuff onto the wee Shuffle or even the eight-gigabyte Nano or Impact. If you love all your music and don't want to spend time cherry-picking tracks to load up your iPod, y'all can Autofill information technology to the brim with a full serving of tunes.

If you have a Shuffle and this is the starting time fourth dimension you're plugging information technology into your PC, the iPod Setup Banana appears. Leave the "Automatically choose songs…" checkbox turned on, click Done, and presto: iTunes grabs a random collection of songs from your library and copies them onto your tiny iPod. Afterward that, each time you connect your Shuffle, a pocket-size console appears at the lesser of iTunes, inviting you to fill up your iPod with the click of the Autofill push.

Although Autofill used to be a Shuffle-but feature, other iPods can utilise it as well, as long as you set them to manually manage music. To use Autofill with a Nano, Touch, or Classic, connect the iPod and click the flippy triangle next to its icon in the iTunes Source list—the left-almost cavalcade in iTunes. The Autofill bar appears at the bottom of the screen. Click the Autofill push to load up.

With the Autofill From pop-upwardly menu, iTunes tin snag songs from your unabridged library or just a particular playlist (encounter Chapter 6). Click the Settings push button for options to accept iTunes pick random tracks or select highly rated songs more often. ("Ratings?" you say? Check out Affiliate 5 for the details.)

Later on you Autofill for the commencement time, when you return for another batch of songs, yous tin turn on the checkbox adjacent to "Replace all items when Autofilling" to have iTunes wipe the showtime batch of songs off your iPod and substitute new tracks.

In one case iTunes fills up your iPod, you come across an "iPod sync is complete" bulletin at the top of the screen. Click the Squirt button adjacent to your iPod's icon, and so unplug the actor from the computer.

Manually Load Your iPod Shuffle

If y'all want to decide what goes onto your Shuffle, opt for manual updating instead of letting iTunes cull. As with whatever other iPod on manual control, yous drag songs and playlists you lot want on your 'Pod from your iTunes library and drop them on the Shuffle'southward icon in the Source list.

When you click the Shuffle's icon and it displays your song list, experience free to re-arrange individual songs in the social club yous want to hear them—simply drag them up or downwardly. The info down at the lesser of the iTunes window tells you how much space you've got left on your Shuffle if you're looking to make full it to the rim. To delete songs from the Shuffle, select one or more tracks and so printing the Delete cardinal on your keyboard.

Yous can also mix and friction match your song-loading methods. Start past dragging a few favorite playlists over to the Shuffle, and so click Autofill to end the job. Just make sure the "Replace all items when Autofilling" checkbox isn't turned on or iTunes will wipe off the tracks y'all personally added.

Annotation

Before versions of the iPod Shuffle used to be rather monogamous—that is, they only wanted to work with one iTunes library at a time and would threaten to erase and replace their contents if you added music from a different computer. The free-spirited iPod Shuffles of 2009, however, permit you manually add music from multiple computers, just as you can with whatsoever other ol' iPod.

Become Stuff on the iPod Touch: The Quick Manner

Every bit with every iPod model that's come before it, the iPod Bear upon offers the simple and effective autosync feature. Autosyncing automatically puts a copy of every song, podcast, and video in your iTunes library right onto your player. In fact, the first time you connect your iPod Touch to your calculator, the iPod Setup Assistant offers to copy all the music in your iTunes library over to your new player. If you opt to practise that, your iPod is already fix for autosync.

If you've added more than music since that commencement run across, the steps for loading the new goods onto your Touch couldn't exist easier:

1. Plug the USB cable into your Windows PC or Macintosh.

2. Plug the apartment stop of that same cable into the bottom of the iPod Touch.

3. Sit back and permit iTunes leap into action, syncing away and doing all that heavy lifting for you.

You lot can tell the sync magic is working considering iTunes gives y'all a progress written report at the height of its window that says "Syncing iPod Touch…" (or any you lot've named your histrion). When iTunes tells you the iPod'south update is consummate, you're free to unplug your Bear upon and take off.

Autosync is a beautiful thing, but it's not for everyone—especially if you accept more than eight, 32, or 64 gigabytes worth of stuff in your iTunes library. (That may sound similar a lot of room for music, but once you first adding hefty video files, that space disappears fast.) If that'southward the case, iTunes fits what it tin on the iPod.

If autosync isn't for you, spring over to the next page to read nearly more than selective ways to load up your Impact.

Manually Load Your iPod Touch

If you opt out of autosyncing your iPod Bear on, you now need to go alee and cull some songs for information technology. Until you lot do, the Touch merely sits there empty and forlorn in your iTunes window, waiting for you to give it something to play with.

Transmission Method #1

Transmission Method #1

1. Click the iPod Impact icon on the left side of the iTunes window. This opens up a world of syncing preferences for getting stuff on your iPod.

2. Click the Music tab, and then turn on the "Sync Music" checkbox.

3. Click the button next to "Selected playlists, artists, and genres" and check off the items yous want to copy to your iPod. (No playlists however? See Chapter 6.)

   

4. Click the Utilize button at the lesser of the iTunes window.

Transmission Method #2

1. This one's for those into fine-grained picking and choosing: Click the Summary tab and turn on "Manually manage music and videos." Now you can click the songs, albums, or playlists you want and drag them to the Affect icon in the iTunes Source pane.

Transmission Method #3

1. Every item in your iTunes library has a checkmark next to its name when you showtime import it. Clear that checkmark next to whatever you don't want on the Touch. (If you have a large library, hold downward the Command [⌘] key while clicking whatever championship; that performs the nifty fox of removing all checkmarks. So go and check the stuff you lot do want.)

2. Click the iPod Touch on icon under "Devices" in the Source list, and then click the Summary tab.

3. At the bottom of the Summary screen, turn on the checkbox next to "Sync merely checked songs and videos" and then click the Sync button.

Disconnect Your iPod from Your Computer

Got iTunes installed? Check .

Got music in the iTunes library? Check .

Got the iPod connected and the music you want copied onto it? Bank check .

Next up: Disconnect the iPod from your calculator so you tin bask your tunes. Resist the impulse to yank the USB cablevision out of the iPod without checking it first. If you can see menus or the battery icon on your 'Pod, you can safely unplug it.

But if you see the image shown at left, you need to manually eject the iPod from your computer. iTunes gives you lot two like shooting fish in a barrel ways to practice that:

1. Click the little Eject icon next to the name of your iPod in the iTunes Source list.

   

2. If your iPod'southward already selected in the Source listing, choose Control→Squirt iPod or press Ctrl+E (⌘-Due east).

With either method, the iPod's screen announces information technology's ejecting and displays an "OK to Disconnect" progress bar every bit it breaks its connectedness with the figurer. Once all the greyness screens go away and you see the regular menus once again, you can safely liberate your iPod.

Accuse Your iPod the First Time

Right out of the box, your iPod's battery probably has plenty juice to run for a little while without you having to charge it upwardly. Somewhen, though, you'll demand to go in for an electrical make full-up. All you need to exercise is plug the iPod back into your computer with the USB cable (the iPod charges itself by cartoon from your PC or Mac's power). Just make sure you have your computer turned on and that information technology isn't asleep.

It takes simply a few hours to fully charge your iPod's battery, and even less time to practise what Apple calls a fast charge , which fills up lxxx percent of the bombardment'due south capacity. That should exist plenty of gas in your iPod'south tank for a quick spin.

Here's how much time each iPod needs for both a fast and a full charge:

	Fast Charge	Total Charge
iPod Nano	1.v hours	3 hours
iPod Touch	ii hours	4 hours
iPod Classic	2 hours	iv hours
iPod Shuffle	2 hours	3 hours

If y'all're traveling and don't desire to elevate your laptop with y'all just to accuse your iPod, you tin purchase an Air-conditioning adapter for it. Chapter 2 has more information on that.

Command the iPod Nano or Classic with the Click Wheel

Smack in the iPod's belly is the click bicycle , your way effectually the iPod'southward contents. It'southward called a click wheel because you can actually click down on the iv buttons evenly arranged around the ring. And the iPod's on-screen menus spin past as y'all move your thumb around the circle. There'south also a big button in the bike's center, which you'll button a lot as you lot tell your iPod to do your behest. Here'due south what each button does, going clockwise from the pinnacle.

1. Carte . Tap this push button to return to whatever screen yous just viewed. For case, if y'all visited Music→Playlists→My Summit Rated, you'd press Carte twice to return to the Music menu. If you keep tapping Menu, you eventually wind upwardly on the iPod's main menu.

2. Next/Fast-Forward . Printing this push button to leap to the adjacent vocal in a play-list (Chapter six), or concord it downwardly to accelerate quickly within a song.

3. Play/Intermission . Just similar on a CD histrion, this push button starts a song; push button information technology again to pause the music.

4. Previous/Rewind . Press this button to play the song direct before the electric current track, or hold it downwardly to "rewind" within a song.

5. Select . Like clicking a mouse push, printing Select to cull a highlighted menu particular. When a song championship is highlighted, the Select push button begins playback.

Other iPod Ports and Switches

On the outside, the iPod isn't a very complicated device. There's really simply a Concord switch and 2 jacks to plug in cords. Hither'south what you do with 'em.

1. Agree Switch . At the top of the Archetype, over on the left side, is a piffling sliding switch marked Hold. This is a control that deactivates all the iPod's front buttons. Turning on the Concur switch stops your iPod from popping on if the buttons accidentally get bumped. The Nano's tiny Concord button is besides on the top-left border; the Touch doesn't have a Hold button, since it locks its screen when you press its Slumber/Wake button on top.

2. Headphone Jack . Your new iPod comes with its ain bright white headphones, and they plug in right here. If you don't similar Apple'due south headphones, you can use another style or make, equally long equally the other headphones use the standard 3.5-millimeter stereo miniplug.

   

3. Dock Connector . The flat port on the iPod'southward bottom is chosen the Dock Connector. This is where you plug in the USB cablevision then yous tin can connect your iPod to a estimator for battery-charging and music and video fill-ups. (The Nano's headphone jack is also on the bottom.)

Basic Finger Moves for the iPod Touch Screen

Until the iPod Touch on and the iPhone arrived on the scene, iPods were controlled past a wheel or control ring on the front of the player. The Classic and the Nano still work that way, simply if you have an iPod Touch on, you don't need a steering bike to get around the iPod—you but tap the icons and menus direct on the screen to navigate around the device.

There are iv moves yous'll utilize almost often when navigating the Touch screen:

• Tap . Just accept the tip of your finger and directly touch the icon, song championship, or control you see on the screen. The iPod Touch isn't a crusty old figurer, so you don't accept to button very hard. A gentle printing volition do.

• Elevate . Keep your fingertip pressed downward on the screen and slide it around to scroll to different parts of the screen. You lot can do things like move volume sliders on music tracks or scoot over to dissimilar parts of a photo past dragging.

• Picture show . Lightly and quickly whip your finger up or down a vertical listing of songs on the iPod Touch screen, and scout them whiz past in the management you flicked. The faster you movie that finger, the faster the text on-screen scrolls by. Yous can also movie side-to-side in Cover Flow view (Chapter 3) or in a photo album to run across images parade triumphantly across your screen.

• Slide . A slide is sort of like a drag, but you use it mainly when your iPod presents y'all with a special on-screen button, such as when you need to unlock the iPod Bear on's main screen when yous showtime turn it on.

Note

The iPod Bear on relies on the human touch—pare-on-drinking glass contact—to work. If you have really long fingernails, a Band-aid on the tip of your finger, or happen to exist wearing gloves, y'all're going to have problems working the iPod Touch. Yous can't use a pencil eraser or pen tip, either. Yous can, however, find a special stylus to work with the Impact; for example, Pogo (tenonedesign.com) makes one for $15.

Special Buttons on the iPod Touch

The iPod Touch has the same headphone port on tiptop and dock-connector jack on the bottom as other iPods. But because near of its controls are behind its sensitive screen, the Touch has simply a couple of physical buttons on the outside.

1 of these is the volume rocker on the left side. Pressing the height neb increases the audio on either the tiny footling external speaker or an attached pair of headphones; the bottom nib lowers the volume.

For your pushing pleasure, the Touch comes with two other buttons:

• Home . Forget clicking your heels together three times—just button this indented button on the bottom of the Bear upon and yous'll always return home. The iPod'southward Home screen is where all your tappable icons for Music, Photos, Safari Spider web browsing, and more hang out. If y'all ever wander deep into the iPod and don't know how to get out, button the Dwelling house button to escape. You can also push it to wake upwardly the iPod Affect from slumber.

  

• Sleep/Wake . Press the thin black button on top of the Touch to put it to sleep and save some battery ability. If you've got a song playing, no trouble: a sleeping Bear on still plays—it'due south only the display that goes dark.

Find the Music on Your iPod—and Play It

At present that you've got some songs on your iPod, you're ready to listen to them. Plug your headphones into the headphone jack and press whatsoever button on the front of the iPod if you need to turn it on.

Find Music on Your Nano or Classic

After you pick a language, the first carte du jour you meet says "iPod" at the acme of the screen. Here's how to start playing your tunes:

1. On the iPod menu, highlight the Music menu . Run your thumb over the gyre cycle to motility the blue highlight bar up and down.

2. Press the round center button to select Music .

3. On the Music menu, scroll to whichever category y'all want to notice your song . Your can select musc by artist, album, vocal, genre, then on. Gyre to the one you want and press the middle push to run into your songs sorted by your chosen method.

   

4. Ringlet through the list on the iPod'southward screen . Say you decided to look for music by artist. Yous now encounter a listing of all the singers and bands stored on your iPod. Scroll down to the ane you desire and press the center button. You'll see a list of all the albums you have from that artist.

   

5. Ringlet to the album you lot want to hear . Press the Select or Play/Pause button to start playing the album.

You tin find anything on your iPod by scrolling effectually and pressing the eye button to select the detail you lot want to hear, watch, read, or play. If you finish up on a screen where you don't want to be, press the Card button to retrace your steps. In fact, you can go along pressing the Bill of fare push to reverse course and go all the way back to the iPod's principal carte.

Press the Play/Pause push to pause a vocal that's playing. If a vocal's not playing and you don't bear upon the iPod's buttons for a few minutes, it automatically puts itself to slumber to save battery power.

Find Music on Your iPod Touch

"Hey!" yous say, "I accept an iPod Touch on! How practice I observe my music since I don't have a curl wheel?" Here's what you lot do.

1. Tap the Music push button on the Home screen.

   

2. You see five tappable buttons at the bottom of the Music screen. These let you see your music sorted past Genius Mix, playlists, artists, or songs. (There's also a More button at the stop that lets you sort by album, genre, and other categories.)

3. Tap the Songs button and then ringlet (by flicking your finger) down to the song yous want to play. Y'all can also hold downwardly the alphabet bar on the correct and then slide your finger slowly to ameliorate control the coil. Tap the song'southward title to hear it play.

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Source: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ipod-the-missing/9781449377281/ch01.html

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